Car-door fastening



G. W. HARRIS. GAR DOOR PASTENING.

(No Model.)

Patented Feb.'4, 1890.

351i* 14S @Mom/tengo `'UNITED STATE-S PATENT OFFICE,

GEORGE WT. HARRIS, OF BRUSHTON, NEV

CAR-DOOR FASTENINVG..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,556, dated February 4, A1890.

i .Application filed November 9, 1889. Serial No. 329,730. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HARRIS, 'a citizen of the United States, residing at Brushton, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented a new an'd useful Car-Door Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion has relation to car-doors, and more particularly to the means for locking the same; and among the objects in view are to provide a door which will automatically latch itself when closed and which is designed to be locked by a seal or padlock and to be operated in a simple and convenient manner.

With these general objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a car-door constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line .oc x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation, the car open.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures 0f the drawings.

1 represents the side of a car, and 2 the door-opening. Mounted-upon brackets 3,

above the opening, is the usual track 4, upon which,by means of inverted-U -shaped straps or clips 5, secured to the door and embracing the track, the door 6 is mounted and adapted to be reciprocated upon the track and to and from the opening. A groove 7 is formed in the lower edge of the door, and into the same extends the upturned end of an L-shaped guide-bracket 8, secured to the wall of the car under the door-opening.

9 represents a gravity latch or bar having a slot 10 near its upper end and loosely connected to the door by means-of avbolt 11. A pin 12 extends from the rear upper end of the latch, and by reason of the loose mounting of the latch upon the door said pin is adapted to take into a notch 14, formed in the upper edge of the track 4,when the door is in a closed position, and by this means the door is latched against jarring open, but may be readily opened by an upward reciprocation of the latch 9, so as to disengage the lockingpin 12 fromthe notch 14. The lower end of the latch 9 is by a bolt 15 pivotally connected to a latch-lever 16, the adjacent faces near the ends ofthe latch and latch-lever being cut away or half recessed to permit of a 'fit- 55 ting of the two together. The latch-lever 16 is pivotally connected to the door 6 near its lower end by a bolt 17 and is provided near its center with a staple 18. The upper edge of the latch-lever from its rear end to near 6o its front end is recessed, as at 19, and terminates in a shoulder 2O at its front end.

Above the latch-lever is pivoted a lockinglever 21,the upper end of which is pivoted to the base of the doorby a-bolt 22 and the lower 65 end of which is provided with a staple 23, adapted, when the latch is in a latched position, to be thrown into line with the staple 18 of the latch-lever. By bringing the door 0pposite the opening the door is latched, as de- 7o 1f by accident the door should be left open, i

To undo the lock the locking-lever is 8O the jarring of the cars while in motion will serve to close the door and the latch will be gradually brought to a position where it would lock.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination,with the track provided with a notch, of the door mounted for movement on the track and providedwith a vertically-reciprocating latch-bar having a lookin g pin or device for engaging the notch, a latchlever pivotally connected at one end with the latch-bar and at its opposite end to the door, and means for locking the latch-bar 'against rising, substantially as specilied.

2. The combination, with the track, of averticallyreciprocating latch-bar for engaging the track secured to thedoor which is mounted for movement on the track, a latch-lever pivotally connected to the lower end of the bar Y the latch-lever, substantially as specified.

3. The eombination,with the track having a notch, of the sliding door mounted on the track, the reciprocating latch-bar slotted and connected to the door by means of the bolt, a latch-pin connected to the upper end of the bar and adapted to drop into the notch, a latch-lever pivotally connected to the lower end of the har and at its opposite end to the door, and a swinging locking-lever adapted to be thrown against the latch-lever, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of the track 4, having a notch 14, the door 6, mounted for sliding on the track, thc latch-bar 9, slotted, as at 10, and

connected to the face of the door by the bolt ll and provided with the pin 13, the latch-lever 16, bolted, as at l5, to the lower end ol' the latch-bar and at 17 to the face of the door and having the staple 18, and cut away upon its rear upper edge, as at 19, and terminating in the shoulder 20, and the locking-lever 21,piv oted at its upper end to the door by the bolt 22 and having the staple 23, the lower end ot' the lever being adapted to be swung against the shoulder 20, and the staples aligned to receive a padlock or other securing device, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own l have hereto aitixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

HORACE J. TRYON, ELTON E. HARRIS. 

